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NAME

     mscore, musescore — MuseScore 2 sheet music editor

SYNOPSIS

     mscore [-deFfhIiLmnOPRstvw] [-a | --use-audio driver] [-b | --bitrate bitrate]
            [-c | --config-folder pathname] [-D | --monitor-resolution DPI]
            [-E | --install-extension extension file] [-j | --job file.json]
            [-M | --midi-operations file] [-o | --export-to file] [-p | --plugin name]
            [-r | --image-resolution DPI] [-S | --style style] [-T | --trim-image margin]
            [-x | --gui-scaling factor] [--debug] [--dump-midi-in] [--dump-midi-out]
            [--experimental] [--export-score-parts] [--factory-settings] [--force] [--help]
            [--layout-debug] [--load-icons] [--long-version] [--new-score] [--no-midi]
            [--no-synthesizer] [--no-webview] [--revert-settings] [--template-mode] [--test-mode]
            [--version] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     MuseScore is a Free and Open Source WYSIWYG cross-platform multi-lingual music composition
     and notation software, released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPLv2).

     Running mscore without any extra options launches the full graphical MuseScore program and
     opens any files specified on the command line.

     The options are as follows:

     -a | --use-audio driver
             Use audio driver: one of jack, alsa, portaudio, pulse

     -b | --bitrate bitrate
             Set MP3 output bitrate in kbit/s

     -c | --config-folder pathname
             Override configuration and settings directory

     -D | --monitor-resolution DPI
             Specify monitor resolution (override autodetection)

     -d | --debug
             Start MuseScore in debug mode

     -E | --install-extension extension file
             Install an extension file; soundfonts are loaded by default unless -e is also
             specified

     -e | --experimental
             Enable experimental features, such as layers

     -F | --factory-settings
             Use only the standard built-in presets (“factory settings”) and delete user
             preferences; compare with the -R option

     -f | --force
             Ignore score corruption and version mismatch warnings in “converter mode”

     -h | --help
             Display an overview of invocation instructions

     -I | --dump-midi-in
             Display all MIDI input on the console

     -i | --load-icons
             Load icons from the filesystem; useful if you want to edit the MuseScore icons and
             preview the changes

     -j | --job file.json
             Process a conversion job (see EXAMPLES below)

     -L | --layout-debug
             Start MuseScore in layout debug mode

     -M | --midi-operations file
             Specify MIDI import operations file (see EXAMPLES below)

     -m | --no-midi
             Disable MIDI input

     -n | --new-score
             Start with the New Score wizard regardless whether it's enabled or disabled in the
             user preferences

     -O | --dump-midi-out
             Display all MIDI output on the console

     -o | --export-to file
             Export the given (or currently opened) file to the specified output file.  The file
             type depends on the extension of the filename given.  This option switches to
             “converter mode” and avoids the graphical user interface.

     -P | --export-score-parts
             When converting to PDF with the -o option, append each part's pages to the created
             PDF file.  If the score has no parts, all default parts will temporarily be
             generated automatically.

     -p | --plugin name
             Execute the named plugin

     -R | --revert-settings
             Use only the standard built-in presets (“factory settings”) but do not delete user
             preferences; compare with the -F option

     -r | --image-resolution DPI
             Set image resolution for conversion to PNG files.

             Default: 300 DPI (actually, the value of “Resolution” of the PNG option group in the
             Export tab of the preferences)

     -S | --style style
             Load a style file first; useful for use with the -o option

     -s | --no-synthesizer
             Disable the integrated software synthesiser

     -T | --trim-image margin
             Trim exported PNG and SVG images to remove whitespace surrounding the score.  The
             specified margin, in pixels, will be retained (use 0 for a tightly cropped image).
             When exporting to SVG, this option only works with single-page scores.

     -t | --test-mode
             Set test mode flag for all files

     -v | --version
             Display the name and version of the application without starting the graphical user
             interface

     -w | --no-webview
             Disable the web view component in the Start Centre

     -x | --gui-scaling factor
             Scale the score display and other GUI elements by the specified factor; intended for
             use with high-resolution displays

     --long-version
             Display the full name, version and git revision of the application without starting
             the graphical user interface

     --template-mode
             Save files in template mode (e.g. without page sizes)

     MuseScore supports the automatic Qt command line options (see below).

   Batch conversion job JSON format
     The argument to the -j option must be the pathname of a file comprised of a valid JSON
     document honouring the following specification:

        The top-level element must be a JSONArray, which may be empty.

        Each array element must be a JSONObject with the following keys:

         in      Value is the name of the input file (score to convert), as JSONString.

         plugin  Value is the filename of a plugin (with the .qml extension), which will be read
                 from either the global or per-user plugin path and executed before the
                 conversion output happens, as JSONString.  Optional, but at least one of plugin
                 and out must be given.

         out     Value is the conversion output target, as defined below.  Optional, but at least
                 one of plugin and out must be given.

        The conversion output target may be a filename (with extension, which decided the format
         to convert to), as JSONString.

        The conversion output target may be a JSONArray of filenames as JSONString, as above,
         which will cause the score to be written to multiple output files (in multiple output
         formats) sequentially, without being closed, re-opened and re-processed in between.

        If the conversion output target is a JSONArray, one or more of its elements may also be,
         each, a JSONArray of two JSONStrings (called first and second half in the following
         description).  This will cause part extraction: for each such two-tuple, all extant
         parts of the score will be saved individually, with filenames being composed by
         concatenating the first half, the name (title) of the part, and the second half.  The
         resulting string must be a valid filename (with extension, determining the output
         format).  If a score has no parts (excerpts) defined, this will be silently ignored
         without error.

        Valid file extensions for output are:

         flac      Free Lossless Audio Codec (compressed audio)

         mid       standard MIDI file

         mlog      internal file sanity check log (JSON)

         mp3       MPEG Layer III (lossy compressed audio)

         mpos      measure positions (XML)

         mscx      uncompressed MuseScore file

         mscz      compressed MuseScore file

         musicxml  uncompressed MusicXML file

         mxl       compressed MusicXML file

         ogg       OGG Vorbis (lossy compressed audio)

         pdf       portable document file (print)

         png       portable network graphics (image)

                   Individual files, one per score page, with a hyphen-minus followed by the page
                   number placed before the file extension, will be generated.

         spos      segment positions (XML)

         svg       scalable vector graphics (image)

         wav       RIFF Waveform (uncompressed audio)

         xml       uncompressed MusicXML file

     See below for an example.

ENVIRONMENT

     SKIP_LIBJACK
             Set this (the value does not matter) to skip initialisation of the JACK Audio
             Connection Kit library, in case it causes trouble.

     XDG_CONFIG_HOME
             User configuration location; defaults to ~/.config if unset.

     XDG_DATA_HOME
             User data location; defaults to ~/.local/share if unset.

     XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
             Location of works the user created with the application; defaults to ~/Documents (or
             a localised version) and can be set in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs.

     Note that MuseScore also supports the normal Qt environment variables such as
     QT_QPA_GENERIC_PLUGINS, QT_QPA_PLATFORM, QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME, QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH,
     QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE, DISPLAY, etc.

FILES

     /usr/share/mscore-2.3/ contains the application support data (demos, instruments,
     localisation, system-wide plugins, soundfonts, styles, chords, templates and wallpapers).
     In the Debian packages, system-wide soundfonts are installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf2/,
     /usr/share/sounds/sf3/ or /usr/share/sounds/sfz/, respectively, instead.

     The per-user data (extensions, plugins, soundfonts, styles, templates) and files (images,
     scores) are normally installed into subdirectories under $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR/MuseScore2/ but
     may be changed in the configuration.  Note that snapshot, alpha and beta versions use
     MuseScore3Development instead of MuseScore2 in all of these paths.

     $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MuseScore/MuseScore2.ini contains the user preferences, list of recently
     used files and their locations, window sizes and positions, etc.  See above for development
     version paths.

     $XDG_DATA_HOME/data/MuseScore/MuseScore2/ contains updated localisation files downloaded
     from within the program, plugin information, cached scores, credentials for the
     musescore.com community site, session information, synthesiser settings, custom key and time
     signatures and shortcuts.  See above for development version paths.

EXAMPLES

     Convert a score to PDF from the command line:

           mscore -o 'My Score.pdf' 'My Score.mscz'

     Run a batch job converting multiple documents:

           mscore -j job.json

     This requires the file job.json in the current working directory to have content similar to
     the following:

           [
             {
               "in": "Reunion.mscz",
               "out": "Reunion-coloured.pdf",
               "plugin": "colornotes.qml"
             },
             {
               "in": "Reunion.mscz",
               "out": [
                 "Reunion.pdf",
                 [ "Reunion (part for ", ").pdf" ],
                 "Reunion.musicxml",
                 "Reunion.mid"
               ]
             },
             {
               "in": "Piece with excerpts.mscz",
               "out": [
                 "Piece with excerpts (Partitura).pdf",
                 [ "Piece with excerpts (part for ", ").pdf" ],
                 "Piece with excerpts.mid"
               ]
             }
           ]

     The last part of the job would, for example, cause files like “Piece with excerpts (part for
     Violin).pdf” to be generated alongside the conductor's partitura and a MIDI file with the
     full orchestra sound, whereas the equivalent part of the Reunion conversion will be silently
     ignored (because the Reunion piece (a MuseScore demo) has no excerpts defined).

     https://musescore.org/sites/musescore.org/files/midi_import_options_0.xml is a sample MIDI
     import operations file for the -M option.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The mscore utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     fluidsynth(1), midicsv(1), timidity(1), qtoptions(7)

     https://musescore.org/handbook
             Online Handbook, full user manual

     https://musescore.org/forum
             Support Forum

     https://musescore.org/handbook/command-line-options-0
             Further documentation of command line options

     https://musescore.org/handbook/revert-factory-settings-0
             Reverting to factory settings (troubleshooting)

     https://musescore.org/project/issues
             Project Issue Tracker

             Please check first to if the bug you're encountering has already been reported.  If
             you just need help with something, then please use the support forum (see above)
             instead.

     http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#supported-command-line-options
             Documentation of automatic Qt command line options

STANDARDS

     MuseScore attempts to implement the following standards:

        MusicXML 3.1 (score interchange format)

        SF2 (SoundFont 2.01)

        SF3 (SoundFont with OGG Vorbis-compressed samples)

        SFZ (Sforzato soundfont)

        SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout 1.18)

HISTORY

     MuseScore was split off the MusE sequencer in 2002 and has since become the foremost Open
     Source notation software.

AUTHORS

     MuseScore is developed by Werner Schweer and others.

     This manual page was written by mirabilos <tg@debian.org>.

CAVEATS

     The automatic Qt command line options are removed from the argument vector before the
     application has a chance at option processing; this means that an invocation like

           mscore -S -reverse

     has no chance at working because the -reverse is removed by Qt first.

BUGS

     MuseScore does not honour /etc/papersize.

     Probably some more; check the project's bug tracker (cf. SEE ALSO).